Stillness

Even when he is still, the selfish man is busy.
Even when he´s busy, the selfless man is still.
Ashtavakra Gita__

Joy

Whoever has tasted the sweetness of solitude and tranquillity, becomes free from fear and sin; because the sight of the noble is good and to live with them is always joyful.
__Buddha

Enlightenment On The Couch

Spirit survives this world and flesh doesn’t last, because in true nature we are the inexhaustible fire but also its selfsame sparks. We are eternal flame, but just a glint, burning out in this dream.

Singing

You say life is a dream where we can't say what we mean,
Maybe just some roadside scene that we're driving past.
There's no telling where we'll be in a day or in a week,
And there's no promises of peace or of happiness.
...
Oh, it's time to let go of everything we used to know,
Ideas that strengthen who we've been.
It's time to cut ties that won't ever free our minds
From the chains and shackles that they're in.
...
Well life is a dream 'cause we're all walking in our sleep,
You could see us stand in lines like we're dead upon our feet.
And we build our house of cards and then we wait for it to fall.
Always forget how strange it is just to be alive at all.
__Patrick Park

Glimpse

Important things are the hardest to say, write or think;
We get ashamed how in an instant might just shrink,
Because words can't but diminish what they mean.

Rain

The desire of a thoughtlessly living man grows like a creeper. Drifts from one life to another, like a monkey looking for fruit in the forest. When one is overcome by this wretched, clinging desire in the world, one's sorrows increase like grass growing up after a lot of rain. But when one masters this wretched desire, which is so hard to overcome, then one's sorrows just drop off, like a drop of water...
__Buddha


Video by Shaun Walker

might we absolve ourselves, to renounce and let it go allˇ
when sunrise enlights the soul and illusion just dissolves
to countless bitter tears, forever lost after fresh rainfall

Volcano

The elder from this lands in Vanuatu says: we live with the volcanoes and we must respect them. If you do so, they´ll bring you good. But if you do evil, then they´ll be coleric... We live with the nature, for sure we can´t be surpised for what we have, because she gives to us... It´s during our youth when we learnt good and evil.

1min.

The essential human comes to know, to feel that is not separate from the whole, and there is no need to seek and search for any destiny on its own. Things are happening, the world is moving --call it God... He is doing things, or they are happening of their own accord. There is no need for me to make any struggle, any effort; there is no need for me to fight for anything. I can relax and be. The essential man is not a doer. The accidental man is a doer. The accidental man is, of course, then in anxiety, tension, stress, anguish, continuously sitting on a volcano. It can erupt any moment, because he lives in a world of uncertainty and believes as if it is certain. This creates tension in his being, because he knows deep down that nothing is certain.
_Osho



Eyjafjallajökull, Iceland.

The Clearings

The clearing of the woods is a centre into which it is not always possible to enter.. It is another kingdom that a soul inhabits and guards.. since it seems that the nothing and the void -or the nothing or the void- have to be present or latent continuously in human life. And as to not be devoured by the nothing or by the void you may have to create them in yourself .. I also center the heart because it is the only thing that from within our self gives away sound.. And only because of it, the privileged organisms that have it hear themselves. Only the faraway stars, pures, while they are inaccessible to their colonization, will provide the real image of an identical being to its life; innocent, as if it had only been created without having to be born.. It becomes deaf and mute in times, circunstancially, the heart.. It leaves then all place to the operations of the mind that move that way, without any assistance, abandoned to themselves.
_María Zambrano

Beyond Words

Alan Watts says; if we think is because we're manipulating with symbols... then the ghosts in our languages are in fact the limit of our reason.



Also aims that fortunately we might not be completely lost after that, because as the Dutch philosopher Aart van der Leeuw wisely said; the mystery of life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.


More from Alan Watts - Samsara, Dharma, Moksha.

Night Beat

Night at Alba, Italy.

By Chad Richard & Gavin Hardkiss

Upside Down World

Everything is upside down in today's world. Michael Ellner wrote it in this way; doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the major media destroys information and religions destroy spirituality.

Dizzy Waves

In New Zealand

Video by Andrei Nica, music by Nouvelle Vague.

Llach

Lluis Llach - Laura


In English + subtitles here

Smell of Desire

Enigma


5min.

Was George Bernard Shaw who said that there are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

Courage

You block your dreams when you allow your fears to grow bigger than your faith. Never fear shadows, they simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby. Because each time we face our fears, we gain strength, courage, and confidence.


1½min.

If I can endure for this minute whatever is happening to me,
No matter how heavy my heart is, or how dark the moment might be...

If I can but keep on believing what I know in my heart to be true,
That darkness will fade with morning and that this will pass away, too...

Then nothing can ever disturb me or fill me with uncertain fear.
For as sure as night brings dawning, my morning is bound to appear...

Paradise

What do we really want?

Swimming

Émilie Simon


I was swimming across the sky
Clouds and angels by my side
Then I realized that I was lonely
And it wasn't such a good thing

I was flying in paradise
In that ocean of dead lights
I was looking for your smile in the wind
But there was nobody there this morning

I believe in your smile everyday
But I know that you're far from my way
When I talk to the moon I can hear you
In the dark I can see, I can feel your light

Places

Aurora Borealis

Permission to Hope

Because nature builds in previous achieved levels of complexity, and each advance in complexity proceeds more quickly than the stage that preceded it.

By Terence McKenna

10min.

What's so progressive about media? It's just the spreading of darkness at the speed of light.